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Robert Marshall's death sentence was overturned in New Jersey. I think he has been on death row for over 20 years for hiring a hit man to kill his wife. The movie "Blind Faith" was made about the case. What a scum, his wife didn't get another 20+ years......

Robert Marshall's death sentence was overturned in New Jersey. I think he has been on death row for over 20 years for hiring a hit man to kill his wife. The movie "Blind Faith" was made about the case. What a scum, his wife didn't get another 20+ years......

I remember that movie. The late, dearly departed Robert Urich, starred in it.

Supreme Court rejects New Jersey appeal in death case

The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider reinstating a New Jersey man's death sentence in a case that inspired a true-crime book and television miniseries.

Justices did not comment in rejecting New Jersey's appeal of an appeals court ruling that found that Robert O. Marshall's lawyer did not adequately represent him during the death penalty phase of his trial for arranging the death of his wife.

I remember that movie. The late, dearly departed Robert Urich, starred in it.

Robert Urich was always one of my favorite actors and I miss him. I hated that he played such a SOB in Blind Faith, but he was good and believable.

I've read the book a few times and it's just heartbreaking what the three boys went through after their beloved mother was murdered. If I remember correctly, the youngest still believes in his father's innocence and I think Robert Marshall wrote a book about his case. I'll have to do some digging on it.

I knew she was married to a Marshall, but I didn't realize it was one of those Marshall's! I believe she's married to the oldest one... Roby?

Originally Posted by NewMom2003

Robert Urich was always one of my favorite actors and I miss him. I hated that he played such a SOB in Blind Faith, but he was good and believable.

I've read the book a few times and it's just heartbreaking what the three boys went through after their beloved mother was murdered. If I remember correctly, the youngest still believes in his father's innocence and I think Robert Marshall wrote a book about his case. I'll have to do some digging on it.

Gold is clearly tickled by her domestic bliss and proud of the hard work she and her husband, Roby Marshall, a 32-year-old athletic coach at a private school in Los Angeles, have done to get here. Most boyfriends, she knows, would have been scared away by her ordeal, but when they met, Marshall had already survived his own horror, and ironically, it's what had led him to Gold.

In 1984, Marshall's father, Robert, a hard-driving insurance broker in Toms River, New Jersey, hired a hit man to kill his homemaker wife, Maria, so he could collect on a $1.5 million insurance policy. As it was later revealed, Robert Marshall was having an affair with a neighbor and was deeply in debt, so he arranged to have his wife shot on the side of the road as they returned from a night in Atlantic City. In 1986, he was convicted of contracting her murder and sentenced to death.

The case inspired Joe McGinniss's 1989 bestseller Blind Faith - - which is told from the point of view of Roby, who was 19 at the time, and his younger brother -- and the 1990 NBC miniseries of the same name. Joanna Kerns, who played Gold's mother in Growing Pains, also played Marshall's mother in Blind Faith. One day, she invited Marshall, who was serving as technical advisor on the miniseries, to the Growing Pains set and introduced him to Gold. Their attraction was instant.

"We really are soul mates. We've been through so much together; we're now getting to reap the benefits," says Gold. "I always wanted to be married, have babies and a beautiful home. Acting is what I like to do, but I look at others who really get into it and work the scene -- that's just not me. Also, for me, it's not about the trappings. I never liked to go out and party.

"Well, my husband is the farthest thing from being involved in acting. He hates the business. He loves me. That's his connection to the business. He visits me on location and is getting very good at changing diapers, which is good, because I eventually want four kids.

"I'm the oldest of five girls, so I've been changing diapers since I was 8. Roby had never changed a diaper in his life; taking care of a baby is a foreign concept to him. He loves playing with Sage, but the minute he starts crying, it's Tracey, I think he wants you! ...
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NJ:Accused triggerman admits he shot Maria Marshall

The man who fired the .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol that killed Maria Marshall in Ocean County's most notorious murder case has confessed his guilt almost 30 years after the crime, according to authorities.

Larry N. Thompson, 71, incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for his part in an unrelated armored-car robbery and the attempted murder of a Shreveport police officer, has told Louisiana and New Jersey law enforcement officials that he was the shooter, 28 years after a jury in Mays Landing found him not guilty of the homicide.

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I followed this trial closely at the time. I never understood his acquittal, he was guilty as sin there was more then enough proof. I wish I had been on that jury no way would I have believed his family members. When this happened it was just a few towns over from me and it was a very big case. I was very upset when his sentence was commuted to 30 years to life, Marshall deserved nothing less then death penalty, as did the trigger man.

Surrounded by spectacular, rugged landscape, Angola prison is in the middle of nowhere, tucked into an isolated corner of southeast Louisiana along the Mississippi River, 25 miles from the nearest town.

Angola, a nickname for the 134-year-old Louisiana State Penitentiary, is home to one of the nationís most notorious prisons and the stateís death row, where life for most inmates will end either by lethal injection or age and hopelessness.

It was here, against the backdrop of an overcast sky on April 25, that James A. Churchill touched down in a small plane at an air strip within the 8,000-acre complex. Churchill, 70, a retired chief of the Ocean County Prosecutorís Office, had flown in to solve a case that had dogged him for almost 30 years. A bearlike man with a white beard and a soft-spoken nature, Churchill, then a prosecutorís lieutenant, had last faced Maria Marshallís killer in 1987.

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